OTA: LimeSDR GPIO, Mini Give-away, SpaceX Sats and More

The LimeSDR General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Board, designed to make it easier to interface the LimeSDR with external hardware, is beginning its journeys to backers following a minor delay in the assembly process. Designed to expand the LimeSDR’s capabilities, the GPIO Board provides individually-configurable bi-directional level-shifted input/output pins for the GPIO…
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

OTA: Saving a Satellite, RAN Competition, 3D-Printed Foxhole Radios, and More

Dr. Danny Webster’s Wireless Masterclass series continues with a look at more advanced digital radio concepts and implementations including the detection and reduction of data loss The fourth in an ongoing series of presentations, Wireless Masterclass 4 follows on from the introductory video for those new to digital…
Sage Hansen's Foxhole Radio

OTA: LimeSDR Mini Demos, CubeSats, Discone Antennas, and More

The LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign page continues to deliver impressive demonstrations of the device’s capabilities, including the creation of what is quite likely the world’s smallest Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) transmitter. The first demonstration, from Evariste Okcestbon, pairs a LimeSDR Mini with a Raspberry Pi Zero to broadcast…
Titan Missile Museum Discone Antenna

OTA: LimeSDR Mini on Android, Quantum Radio, 5G and More

QRadioLink developer Adrian Musceac has shown off how the LimeSDR Mini can be connected to a smartphone for on-the-go software-defined radio reception and transmission, in the latest demonstration update to the Crowd Supply campaign. Using the GNU Radio-based QRadioLink running on an Android smartphone, a USB battery pack,…
QRadioLink

OTA: RAN Competition, ScratchRadio Updates, a Ham Watch, and More

BT and Lime Microsystems have launched a competition for all LimeSDR, LimeSDR Mini, and LimeNET users: build a radio access project and pick yourselves up a LimeSDR with official aluminium case plus the potential to publish your creation in the LimeNET app store. Designed to encourage the development of…
Travis Goodspeed's GoodWatch

OTA: LimeSDR Minis, Active Cooling, Sunny Interference, and More

Campaign backers eagerly awaiting their LimeSDR Mini boards have something to whet their appetite in the form of a demonstration using SDRangel, the open-source signal analyser and general-purpose transceiver application. In a video posted to the Crowd Supply campaign page and visible to all, Andrew Back demonstrates how Edouard…

OTA: LimeSDR Mini v1.0, DVB UHD-1, RadFxSat, and More

Karl Woodward’s LimeSDR Made Simple series headed into its eight instalment this week with a look at how to program the LimeSDR from a Linux host. “Very early on in episode one we promised to work from SDR novice to API programming examples in small, bite sized chunks,” Karl…
LimeSDR Mini v1.0

OTA: LimeSDR Mini Success, Biconic Dipoles, RadFxSat, and More

The LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign has come to its close with almost three times its target raised, meaning production is now on-track for the first units to ship to backers by the end of the year. A post-campaign update from Andrew and the LimeSDR Mini team provides thanks…
LimeSDR Mini Basestation Demo

OTA: LMS8001, LimeSDR Mini Demos, DARPA Hackfest, and More

The LimeSDR family now has a new accessory in the LMS8001 Companion Board, an add-on designed to extend the frequency coverage up to 10GHz. To launch alongside the LimeSDR Mini later this year, the LMS8001 Companion Board features a four-channel frequency shifter compatible with any version of the LimeSDR…
LMS8001 Companion Board

OTA: Masterclass Videos, RFI, C-Band Reuse and More

If you’re looking for an in-depth deep dive into digital radio and the inner workings of the LMS7002M and LimeSDR you’ll want to look out for Dr. Danny Webster’s Wireless Masterclass series, the first of which has been uploaded to YouTube. Based on presentations from the LimeSDR Workshop…
LimeSDR Mini on a LattePanda

OTA: New LimeSDR Accessories, LattePanda Experiments, and More

The LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign, launched earlier this month, is off to a flying start and is already over 130 percent funded with over 30 days still left on the clock – and now includes support for an external clock source. Designed to be fully compatible with the LimeSDR…
LimeSDR Hacker Case

OTA: LimeSDR Mini, GNU Octave, SDR on a Watch and More

Lime Microsystems has officially opened a crowdfunding campaign for the LimeSDR Mini, a reduced-size and reduced-cost version of the LimeSDR which offers one TX and one RX channel for just $99 for Early Bird backers and $139 thereafter. Taking place on Crowd Supply over the next month – the…
LimeSDR Mini (Render)